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Katie Sweeney

@k8iesweeney.bsky.social

670 followers 170 following 880 posts

Word slinger. Aspiring eccentric. Libraries. Bikes > cars. Gulf of Mexico. PHL

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 15d

We need to start putting a $ amount to these stunts so taxpayers can see what we’re footing.

aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 16d

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 9h

Before you ask - Mike Johnson has not seen it and has never heard of it.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

Veterans protest Guard

YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 12h

May the hostages and prisoners savor reunification with their loved ones and I wish them mental and physical healing in the lifetime ahead. For the ceasefire, I'm thinking of Rashid Khalidi's words that lasting peace can only come from a plan that centers justice and equality.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 17h

“A benchmark of any authoritarian movement is the delegitimization of political opposition. Insisting that patriots gathering to express concern about their nation’s future are attending a ‘hate-America rally’ checks all the wrong boxes.”

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 18h

The more Republican rhetoric about No Kings events turns hysterical, the easier it is to believe that the party is increasingly worried about the growing public backlash to the GOP agenda. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Ahead of No Kings events, Republicans’ anti-protest rhetoric takes an ugly turn

GOP leaders appear so concerned about a scheduled protest that they're falsely labeling a No Kings gathering as a “hate-America rally.”

www.msnbc.com

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 12h

This gave me peace. Thank you.

Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 14h

NO NOTES

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 14h

Philly kids. Say less.

Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 17h

The kids on my block made a rap about my outfit when I walked past and I had to suffer in silence. That was over 10yrs ago.

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 18h

Do not want. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Plan to turn Pennhurst site into massive data center outrages neighbors

The pushback comes as both President Donald Trump and Gov. Josh Shapiro champion data center development.

www.inquirer.com

Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 19h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oops. ⚡️

Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 20h

First we dink, then we protest.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 20h

TIL pickleball is antifa

Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 20h

It was a wild 3-day journey.

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 20h

I get most of my local action-item information from my pickleball group.

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 1d

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d

No one thought he could win once
No one thought he could win twice
No one believed he’d get away with it
No one believed he’d be on the ballot
No one accepted the grim reality
No one accepted he’d destroy humanity
No one was prepared for this
No one is stopping it

WE are the last line of defense

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 1d

I knew shipping packages was an issue thx to #TrumpTariffs, but now I’m hearing from USians abroad that they can’t even mail letters back to the US. How is this going to work for voting?

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 1d

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 1d

For someone not known for self reflection, this is a lotta Judgment Day talk lately. mmmmmmhmmm.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 2d

The purple revolution was a wild 3-day journey.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 3d

My HONY book Dear New York book arrived from @bookshop.org in 2 days.